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We have already indicated that Activity and Passivity are to
be regarded as motions, and that it is possible to distinguish
absolute motions, actions, passions.
As for the remaining so-called genera, we have shown that they
are reducible to those which we have posited.
With regard to the relative, we have maintained that Relation
belongs to one object as compared with another, that the two
objects coexist simultaneously, and that Relation is found
wherever a substance is in such a condition as to produce it; not
that the substance is a relative, except in so far as it
constitutes part of a whole- a hand, for example, or head or
cause or principle or element.
We may also adopt the ancient division of relatives into creative
principles, measures, excesses and deficiencies, and those which
in general separate objects on the basis of similarities and
differences.
Our investigation into the kinds of Being is now complete.
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